Short Famine Poems

Short Famine Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Famine by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Famine by length and keyword.


Tutsie Tomato

Her indeterminate growth
                            Gives me in garden famine
                                    A big red tutsie tomato
Form: Haiku


Faith Monoku

I
Science may mock faith; it may be the best therapy

II
Faith is best currency - plus pilot unique!

III 
Faith can feast on God amidst famine
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Less Than Hope

Never in its shadowed presence
have i stood
famine deaths without the taste of food
Pain that never met its equal
numb that has no end
breaks without the bend

Premium Member Instant Noodles

Momofuku
what did you do
took a dried noodle
and made a caboodle

a country in famine
you took time to examine
and created fast food
to feed the whole brood
Form: Clerihew

This Life

This Life 

Soon a plague of unbearable insanity 
Will wreak havoc upon humanity
Misery, murder, and endless strife
Famine and drought 
Will torture this life
Form: Rhyme


Makita Xiv: White Famine

Through hazy mirrors
A doxy appears to be doused
Within suicide languages
Hips bemoaning white filigrees
Caressed by a famine of beatitude
designed to elicit tragedy
Form: Verse

Premium Member Hunger

Famine, starvation,
Misery, segregation,
Poverty, destitution,
Drought, pollution,
Want, undernutrition,
Loneliness, exclusion,
Hope, delusion,
Love, illusion.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Heaven

Heaven
is a palace full of peace
where war doesn't exist
and at the same time, famine
Eternity dances in the realm
at its center, causing clouds
to make it rain endless love

Marina Tsvetaeva

And in her death
She was a poet
Images of her past
Skipped through her mind
Her dead child, her friends, her lovers
Paris, Russia, famine
But images of eternity
Led her to eternity
sad
Form: Narrative

Irish Potato Famine

'Twas a horrible thing called the blight,
diseased potatoes a depressing sight,
starvation begone,
crossed over the pond,
arrived Ellis Island future looks bright.



3-13-17
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Famine

Locust swarms gorge on food chains,
hungry millions piercing cry


Date created : 13 August 2020
Two line poem.

 Contest : Podium placing promise (2)

  Sponsor : Brian Strand

Universal Law

Earth 
Unexpectedly
Rocked
Sun darkened
Moon dimmed its light
Stars  
Falling 
From heaven
Famine
Pestilence
The designing of sorrow
Seems like the end
My lawyer is screwed.

I Want

Famine rides my soul,
hunger contaminates
little pieces of death

love, laughter, happiness
those tastes of heaven

never satisfy 
but turn oceans on my tongue
I want, therefore I am...

Weed

Weed sprouts in my garden
it stays humble, unnoticed
grows together with crops
but suffocates most
then takes over ownership
and it laughed itself dry
when it noticed famine
biting my family

Minor Plus Est

Happy is he
who is content with the least
Whose hunger is sated
in famine he feasts

Happy is he
who begins at the end
And ends at the beginning
—his fortune to bend

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Famine of Love

In this era of famine of love
A housewife cum call-girl
Gives me a little bit of it
Her husband is a drug-addict
And she has a kid to bring up
Anyways thanks God she is
To try to cure my love disease.

Irish Potato

Me great, great, great-grand pappy-died
His son, sailed away from fighting Ireland
In the wake of the potato famine, sought land
Farming his love, many sons his pride
Irish potatoes-boiled, mashed, salad and fried
Form: Limerick

Frugal

I fear 
the flavor of fruitfulness,

the fullness of tables, 
burden bent
by fleeting bounty

I dread the feast;
festivals 
of frivolous indulgence

because I know 
Famine rides hardest
where blessings rot.

Premium Member My Lawn

My Lawn My lawn is my garden it’s weeds you see. In times of famine, it is food for me. Grass may be pretty, so shiny and nice. But it is only food to grubs and mice. By Josehf Lloyd Murchison
Form: Quatrain

Prairie Graveyard

Reckless tumbleweed
hurries across forgotten graves
of those who toiled through despair
and anguish
fighting drought and famine
depression and unemployment
heat and cold
locusts and dust storms
daily uncertainty...
Form: Narrative

Herein and Hereafter

Politics governs our
temporal lives

Religion conscripting
eternity’s prize

Together they’ve killed
more than famine and war

A plague that still haunts us
—to shun and deplore

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Lack of Money

My boss is the government
                 worried of me ?, not so well
                makes me live in  total hell,
                not to die of famine sans nourishment
                i will eat  green grass  i can tell ...!
Form: Epigram

Premium Member They Asked Their God

They asked their God:
“Why is there poverty, famine and injustice in the world?
Then pleaded…”Please, God, what are you going to do?”

“For as long as I can remember”, their God answered,
“Those are the same questions I’ve been asking you.”
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
god
Form: Verse

Famine Starvation

Scary than  the fear,
               further devastating than  the weakness,
               is hunger ...
               With its insatiable voracity
               everything decimates, everything devours,
               consumes, eats ...
Form: Epigram

Preview

I peer through mists of coming years,
The present disappears,
The crimson clouds of war blow past—
Utopia—world peace at last.

No famine, plagues or hunger then,
World law among all men,
Complete coerced security,
The subtlest sort of slavery.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

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